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By Tia Blassingame ’93
Posted Nov. 21, 2007

Eloquent in his praise

African American Princetonian
ran for our nation
but had he been white
men would have stopped
but had he been white
all on that Sunday
would have been eloquent in his praise
those same who held Blacks
in contempt
saying
at the back 100 yards of the cemetery
bury the black

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